[Tennessee Imprint]:

$1,000 · Offered by William Reese Company

[PRINTED LEGAL FORM, PARTIALLY COMPLETED IN MANUSCRIPT, FOR USE IN COURT CASES CONDUCTED IN TERRITORIAL TENNESSEE]. Summons form for "the Territory South of Ohio," partially completed in manuscript, and docketed and signed on the blank verso, "Come to hand 30 October 1794.... O. Williams."Printing began in Tennessee when George Roulstone established his press and began printing his newspaper in Knoxville in November 1791. The earliest dateable book was issued in 1794. The earliest datable form such as this, and thus the earliest datable Tennessee imprint, was in the Thomas W. Streeter collection, dated January, 1793. This is an interesting printed form from Roulstone's press, and one of the earliest possible Tennessee imprints to acquire.

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